326: 7.16 Like You Mean It

7.16 Like You Mean It

Moshe licked his lips. He intentionally dragged the flogger round and round Lu Yizhou's erection, teasing him until he was fully erect again in no time at all. A low chuckle rumbled from his throat, like a satisfied purr of a smug cat. "Answer me. Have I given you permission to come?"1

Lu Yizhou swallowed a few times to find his voice that had flown out of his body along with his precum. "No…"

"Then?"

He closed his eyes. "I'm wrong."

"Hmm?" Moshe raised his brow.

"I apologize…" Lu Yizhou forced out through gritted teeth. "...for my disobedience."

Moshe laughed out loud this time and he finally, finally pressed the flogger right against Lu Yizhou's cock. Lu Yizhou let out a hiss and his wrists strained even more against the rope. He had no idea whether this was a liberation or further torment. The flogger was only suitable for hitting people. When pressed like this, it didn't give any friction which could offer him relief. Instead, it made the itch even more unbearable. "Moshe…"

"What is it, pet?" Moshe's eyes curved happily. "Are you finally willing to confess?"

Lu Yizhou huffed. Truly a devil, he was. But Lu Yizhou hadn't spent six worlds with his lover for nothing. Even though this version of Z was insufferable, sadistic and psychotic, Lu Yizhou still knew how to soothe its bristling fur. Against a paranoid man like Moshe, honesty would be the best.

"I want to apologize… for misunderstanding you." Moshe's smile faltered but Lu Yizhou pressed on, conveying every drop of sincerity into his sentence. "I thought… you were angry because I touched your toy. It upset me. When I said I have only kissed two people, I am not lying." He looked straight into Moshe's eyes. "It might be hard to believe but you… you are my first in everything."

Moshe's arm fell by his side and for a few moments, he narrowed his eyes at Lu Yizhou as if wishing to cut his head open and see what was in his mind.

Lu Yizhou delivered the last blow. "Making you angry is the last thing I ever want and for that… I apologize, Moshe."

Moshe fell silent. He looked at Lu Yizhou with a perplexed look and asked, "Why are you upset?"

The corner of Lu Yizhou's lips twitched. He had given a lengthy speech and in the end, that was what Moshe was focusing on? However Moshe's eyes were so serious and intent that Lu Yizhou felt his heart soften incomparably. "Do you really not have the slightest idea? I have said it when we first met, you are the most—"

[666: Host, 666 did it!!!]

The system's exuberant cheers cut off Lu Yizhou's heartfelt confession and he startled, not expecting that a shrill voice would interrupt him amid the most important moment. The private room was completely enclosed and soundproofed, they wouldn't even hear it if a huge ruckus erupted outside. But now that Lu Yizhou suddenly fell silent, their attention was immediately drawn to the surroundings. There was no mistake about it. The ground was trembling faintly under their feet.

[666: Wait… is 666 interrupting something?]

A sharp buzz pierced through the heavy silence in the room. Moshe tore his gaze off Lu Yizhou and crossed the room to the table. He pressed a button, his voice dangerously low. "What is it?"

"Boss!" Kaede's urgent voice sounded. "The kitchen exploded and the fire is spreading fast. You have to get out of there!"

Moshe closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Who the fuck exploded the kitchen? He was going to blast their heads off!

"Aiden—" Moshe turned around in time to see Lu Yizhou sitting up, the rope falling loose around his wrists. Once again, he was struck speechless. "You…"

Lu Yizhou's face was as dark as the bottom of the pot whilst 666 was prostrating itself inside his head, wailing for mercy. He crossed the room to Moshe in a few large steps and reached out behind the man to press on the button to open the door. Moshe was still staring at him with his mouth agape when Lu Yizhou caught his wrist and tugged him along. "Come on. We have to go." 

As soon as he yanked the door open, water rained down on him from the sprinkle above. Sighing, Lu Yizhou let go of Moshe and entered the room again but before Moshe could open his mouth to say something, he reappeared with a shirt he snatched from somewhere. Judging from the style and the size, it was Moshe's. He draped it over Moshe's head and took his hand once again, this time with their fingers intertwined.

Moshe seemed to have been spellbound. His mind was roaring with a barrage of questions. What the hell had he just seen? So all this while, Aiden could actually free himself? How? Moshe was confident to say that his binding skill was top notch, tempered by years of practice on others and he was sure that he had done it especially hard to teach Aiden a lesson. Let alone a greenhorn gladiator fighter like Aiden, even the experienced personnel would still struggle for a long moment against Moshe's skill. If Aiden could free himself so easily like that, then…

Moshe's eyes were trained on rivulets of water that cascaded down Lu Yizhou's muscular back, leaving wet trails across the honey colored skin. Moshe didn't get drenched thanks to the shirt covering his head, yet somehow the coldness seemed to have seeped into every inch of his body, save from the hand which was in Lu Yizhou's hold.

He was still ruminating over the possibilities in his head when he heard Lu Yizhou saying,

"I have said it when we first met, you are the most beautiful person I have ever seen and it hasn't changed since then." He didn't even bother to turn his head, voice travelling softly amidst the wailing siren and the drizzle of man made rain. "Do you still not understand why I am upset?"

Moshe's pupils shrank as soon as he registered what Lu Yizhou was saying. The simple words seemed to have knocked into the wall of his heart, seizing his breath and resonating inside his head like a burning brand. A pebble had been thrown into the still lake, creating a small wave that would gradually disturb the decades of serenity.

Lu Yizhou waited but there was no answer behind him except for the sharp intake of breath. Had he shocked his lover that much? Lu Yizhou smiled wryly. Well, now that he had started it, he might as well finish it once and for all. "...It's because I have fallen in love with you."

Suddenly, Moshe stopped dead in his tracks and Lu Yizhou almost stumbled on his feet due to the inertia. He turned around in surprise. "What are—" His words were cut off when Moshe reached out to yank his neck down and crushed their lips together. Lu Yizhou's eyes widened by a fraction but he reacted almost immediately, pulling Moshe closer to his waist by one arm while the other tugged on the shirt so it stayed above Moshe's head. 

One was dry, while the other was completely drenched. Just like that, their lips moved ravenously amidst the light shower from the sprinkler head above. 

Moshe was holding onto the back of Lu Yizhou's head tightly, keeping him in place as he devoured the lips that had been plaguing his mind ever since. His barren chest had totally transformed into an active volcano, ready to blow up the lava that had been dormant for years. It bubbled, the steam rolling up and up, filling and pushing against the space between his ribcage until his chest almost exploded. At some point, he let out a brief laugh, wider and wider, until what Lu Yizhou's lips could reach was only teeth. He kissed them anyway, licked into Moshe's mouth to drink the laughter himself. 

Moshe's eyes twinkled with mirth. "I take my words back. I will give them a bonus."

Lu Yizhou didn't understand what he was saying but before he could ask, Moshe dragged him closer again and groaned. "Come on, grumpy boy." He traced Lu Yizhou's lips with a teasing finger, voice carrying a trace of huskiness. "Focus. You said you love me… so kiss me like you mean it." 

Lu Yizhou wasn't one who backed down from a challenge. He merely raised a brow and delved down, almost bending Moshe's body backward in half as he smothered the man into his embrace. The heart that had been hanging over his throat since Jillian and Izher's accident had finally resettled back. Finally, his lover was back in his arms. 

"I will be your pet…" he murmured into the kiss. "...your toy, everything you want. You don't need them anymore. I will make sure to keep you entertained at all times."

He felt Moshe's lips curling into a smirk. "That's a very bold statement. I am very hard to please, you know?"

Oh, Lu Yizhou couldn't wait to prove him wrong.

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Mini theater

Kaede and the guards were scared out of their wits as they waited for Moshe to appear. The last time someone had disturbed Moshe when he was in his private room, their head had gone flying. 

Kaede had started to do damage control; evacuating everyone nearby, making sure the fire was contained only in one area, zeroing in on the main suspect — the chef who, even in such a situation, kept insisting his innocence, "I swear I have no idea how the stove suddenly exploded!" — and lastly, prepared a lengthy speech that could move Heaven and Earth and he hoped, his boss' heart that was drier than a desert.

At last, Moshe swaggered out from the building with the gait of someone who was prepared to walk on a runway, contrasting to everyone who was as wet as chickens with water pooling around their feet.

Not only was he completely dry, he was even smiling!

For everyone who had gotten used to Boss' eternal plastic smile even as he stabbed someone, they shivered in fright and huddled close to each other but only Kaede knew that it was his genuine, wholehearted smile! His eyes went as wide as saucers. What the fuck was happening?!

Moshe's mood was terrific; terrifically good!

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